The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-04
/ LITERARY NOTES.

The Lincoln History in the Century
for July closes up the Kansas troubles
and discusses their corollry, the
Lincoln Douglas Debates" Interest
ing aud hitherto unpublished letters
by Lincoln and Greeley are given.
Bowing with becoming humility like
good Americans before the commol
[, itch tne humoritt, readers who are
interes cd IN L'nc1la will ys. not fail
10 see how necessary TO O kLo Wedge
OF the President 1t is to know the
political sol and atmosphere which
made him Whist he Was. At the same
time the conviction that Messrs.
Nicolay and Hay are the custodisns Of
much OF the most personal and init
mate inside history Of Lincoln's sd-
ministration may we'll stimuli ate the
impatient curiosity Of the public. fhe
veteran historian, George Bancroft,
adds to the historical value Of the
number by recounting "An Incident
In the Life OF John Adams" to which
there are added portraits OF Adams
and Oliver Ellsworth.
Mr.. RICHARD w. GILDKR's address
on "The Colleges and American Liter
a,ure," delivered recently before the
young men Of Wesleyan University,
and repeated last week, with some
changes, before the young ladies oil
Wells College, has been 80 divided az
to form two essays, one which appears
as the leading sricle in The Critic o.
July 2, aud the other as the opening
paper in the IDLY New Princeton Re
riev. Mr.. Glider recalls attention "a
the distinguished achievements oI
American and English writers, past
and present, who nev3r enjoyed the
advantages Of collegiate education
but he thinks that hereafter the beet
literary work In America Is likely IA
be done by men who have had Q
IN rough university training. TIE es.
ssyist himself is not college bred man
In The Century for July the war
series, followed since the start by ihS
closest attention OF thoueat de, com.
passes this month the hundred day.
OF battle In "The Struggle for At
lants," compsctly narra'ei by Gen. o
o. Howard, with q two page letter
from Gen. Sherman, regarding "fhs
March 10 the Sea-" while in the mex
number Gen. Joseph L. Johnston, hi
opponent, is to write Of the feht
against Sherman. Short communica
tions appear from Gen. Hunt, In reply
10 Gen. Walker on 1.-THE Question O
Command on Cemetery Ridge" and
from Gen. h. V. Boynton on the late
Col. K N. Scott and his work on th,
war records.
The opening paper in the July Cen
fury, by Jonn Burroughs, on Wild
Flowers, is profusely illustrated, ant
is likely to SET many a young woman
and summer boarder 10 botan zlng
another, by w. ]. Henderson, OF
"The Sporsman's Mutic," giving pic
lures OF live game birds and recording
the musical notes OF their songs, ap
peals more 10 the other SIX. A thir,
paper, by Ta'cot Williams, treats o
animal Locnmotion in the Muybridg
Photographs" with q lot Of drolly fas
cina'ing pictures exhibiting In pro
gress.vs series familiar phenomena
not fully seen before In nature
mule bucking and rearing, pigeons d.
ing, horses gslloping and lesping, ath
letes jumping and throwing, bal
players batting, etc. "A paper which
IL In the nature Of an excursion into
new world. A humorous story, ye
not without q serious conclusion,
"sister Todhunter's Heart" by II. 4
Edwards, with attractive genre picture
by Kemble, 10 which there Ia foil Il
Mr.. Boyesen's pathetic "Crooke'
John" In which the writer returns /
Norwegian field OF "Gunnsr," and hi
other early successes. To iheee mus
be ADDED siockton's "Hundredll
Man." by one Of the most indiyidus
OF American fiction writer's. "Chrii
tian Science" and "Mind Cure" b
DR.. Buckley, and "The Potential En-
ergy Of Food" by Prof. A,water, AZ
two papers OF q suggestive and valuI
BILE chAiacior by experts In the 1--we,
tisaliuue which they record.